Chapter 5 Naked Desire

Bella stared at Sterling in horror and angrily raised her voice to ask, “What did you do to him?”

She was terrified of what this asshole Sterling was going to do to her friend James.

Sterling got up and slowly walked over to her and stood in front of her, looking at her with a cold, governmental gaze.

He seemed to want to see fear and regret on her face, but this time Bella surprised him.

He felt provoked and anger flashed in his eyes. “Do you care for him much?”

“He just gave me a scarf because I was cold. And you're going to take it out on James?” Bella shouted, her voice filled with years of suppressed anger and aggression.

Sterling's eyes flashed with surprise, then anger. He grabbed Bella by the scruff of her neck and glared at her viciously.

He said coldly, “Everything you have is mine, including your marriage, your love, and even your future children.”

Bella stared at her fishy red eyes and shot back unyielding, “If you ever take it out on someone like that again, all you'll get is my dead body!”

Despite the pain of being choked, madness and ferocity flowed from Bella's fishy red eyes.

This time, Bella completely disregarded the results of disobeying Sterling and stopped worrying about future punishment; right now, she only wanted to protect the innocent.

Every submission in the past had only resulted in more constraints. If Sterling really dared to hurt her friend James, she would really fight back by killing herself.

In this city, Sterling has absolute control, and it's safe to say that the law can't move him at all.

Bella can only warn Sterling with the only life available to her. Then all his controls and plans would become null and void.

Sterling looked at Bella in a daze and thought for a moment before releasing Bella's neck and saying. “I didn't do anything to him he went overseas.”

Bella was also finally relieved to hear that James was safe. The whole group dropped to the floor in relief.

At least I don't have to die this time, Bella thought to herself mockingly.

Then looked up at Sterling, waiting to hear what he would say next. She knew Sterling definitely didn't ask her to come just to say that.

He sat back down at the fireplace to pick up the book he had just put down and said lightly, “Come to my room tonight. I'll be waiting for you.”

Bella's expression changed instantly at Sterling's words.

'Is this what he gets for letting James off the hook?' Well, as long as the friends are okay, we'll see what he wants then.' Bella thought ruefully in her mind, holding onto the table and standing up with all her might.

Bella couldn't remember how she left Sterling's study. She walked downstairs like a puppet.

Zoe had prepared some food for her. There was hand cream on the side.

“I saw you had some cracks on your hands. I prepared it for you. Oh, and here's some medicine. Mr. Windsor had it prepared.” Zoe handed Bella the bag of medicine.

Looking at the bag of medicine, Bella remembered that James had gotten her medicine from the infirmary once before when she had a cough at school.

Now all of a sudden, she received the medicine that Sterling had asked Zoe to prepare again, and it became clear that the medicine James had given her had been thrown away by Sterling. But the sight of the bag of medicine made her think it was a handout from Sterling.

“Mr. Windsor actually cares about you. He'll agree to anything you want as long as you admit your mistake.”

Zoe continued to say nice things about Sterling, but Bella couldn't hear what she was saying anymore.

At the moment, all Bella could think about was what to do with Sterling that night.

“Okay, Zoe, I know. I have to go back to bed.” Bella grabbed the medicine bag out of Zoe's hand and ran back to the storage room.

At night, when the lights were turned off throughout the villa, everyone was asleep. The whole villa was silent.

It was only when the door to the storage room slowly opened that Bella mustered up the courage to make her way to Sterling's room on the second floor.

She clenched her hands nervously and took tiny steps, but no matter how slowly she walked or how much time she dawdled, she would eventually reach Sterling's room.

As Bella took a deep breath and raised her hand to knock, the door opened.

It turned out that the door to Sterling's room was ajar, and he was obviously waiting for her.